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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Relative size matters: eyespots on large insect prey deter small arthropod predators.

Karl Loeffer-Henry, Changku Kang, Thomas N Sherratt

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Karl Loeffer-HenryDepartment of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.
Changku KangDepartment of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu 08826, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-3707-4989
Thomas N SherrattDepartment of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6837-3848

Funding

National Research Foundation of KoreaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circular chromatic patterns that appear to resemble vertebrate eyes ('eyespots') are commonplace in the animal kingdom and are widely believed to have evolved as an anti-predator defence. For example, experiments have shown that eyespots on caterpillar-like pastry baits can deter predation by birds. However, little is known about the extent to which eyespots deter (or promote) attack by arthropod predators. Here, we describe two separate experiments in which salticid spiders (

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MantodeaPigmentationPredatory BehaviorSpidersTenebrioAnimalsBody SizeFood ChainLarvaMothsanti-predator defenceChinese mantideyespotssalticid spider

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PMID40393487
PMCPMC12092103

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